Rebel Media is losing their focus paying attention to US politics instead of their bread and butter of holding all Canadian politocans accountable.

It doesn't matter. If they weren't giving a free platform to 4Chan Nazis like Richard Spencer and Gavin MacInnes...

Rebel Media is losing their focus paying attention to US politics instead of their bread and butter of holding all Canadian politocans accountable.

It doesn't matter. If they weren't giving a free platform to 4Chan Nazis like Richard Spencer and Gavin MacInnes all they'd be doing today would be making excuses for the likes of Derek Fildebrandt. Because double-dipping by lefties is pure evil but when a conservative does it then it's clearly endorsed by every ethical code that ever existed, if not by Gawd itself.

Rebel is international. They have arms in Australia and the UK. They've traveled from Europe to Israel on stories. That's just who they are.

They are based in Canada and they have representatives covering specific areas of our country though.

For example, here's the Alberta rep dealing with this story of the Alberta politicians attacking Rebel on their coverage of Charlottesville.

Good for Lilley for pulling the pin and walking away. Hopefully the Canadian Jewish community and the conservative political machine start putting a lot more pressure on Levant to knock it off with the flirtations he's having with these scumbags in the US.

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Focusing on International and US politics with perhaps questionable correspondents like Laura Loomer (whoever the F*ck she is and needs to go) don't help the optics.

That's why I don't trust Ezra or the rebel. That shit would get you fired most places, or dropped if you were an independent. And that editorial decision is probably why Brian Lilley left. He knows a sinking ship.

There was a time, early last year, when Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s office barred Gunn Reid from covering the Alberta legislature and journalists gulped and defended The Rebel’s media access. It’s much harder to see that happening 18 months later, after any number of episodes that may have prompted Brian Lilley, as a professional journalist, to leave and warn about the dark path Levant’s organization has taken to draw clicks, eyeballs and crowd-funding. Maybe it could have been the anti-Notley rally dotted with “lock her up” chants from the crowd; coverage of the Quebec City mosque shooting that focused on doubting that the white male charged with murder might have done it; a Toronto rally against a House of Commons motion denouncing Islamophobia doubled as a pro-Islamophobia rally; Rebel commentators appearing on conspiracy-monger Alex Jones’ Infowars; or McInnes’ drunken rant from Israel originally titled “10 things I hate about Jews.”

This is a gob-smacking inventory. The bridge too far for Lilley was his organization becoming the Canadian angle to a violent white nationalist protest, even as less than half of The Rebel’s audience actually resides in Canada. The ensuing international coverage that casually called The Rebel an alt-right website finally prompted Levant himself to say: hey, we’re not cool with that stuff, and we are not racist and not alt-right.

Macleans is as Liberal as it gets and everything it mentions up there is spun crap, starting with the fact "Islamophobia" isn't a real word in that it was created by Islamofascist activists to be used by useful idiots, but it doesn't actually mean anything real.